Relationships between adult women's mental health problems and their childhood experiences of parental violence and psychological aggression

We used the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales (M. A. Straus, S. L. Hamby, D. Finkelhor, D. W. Moore, & D. Runyan, 1998) to assess retrospectively women's childhood experiences of both mother and father physical abuse and psychological aggression, and assessed mother and father alcohol pr...

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Published in:Journal of family violence 2006-10, Vol.21 (7), p.439-447
Main Authors: DOWNS, William R, CAPSHEW, Thomas, RINDELS, Barb
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abuse
Aggressiveness
Alcohol Abuse
Anxiety
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child abuse & neglect
Childhood experiences
Childhood Factors
Children & youth
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Diagnosis
Domestic violence
Emotional Abuse
Family environment. Family history
Family Roles
Family studies
Family Violence
Fathers
Medical sciences
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mothers
Parent-child relations
Parents & parenting
Psychological abuse
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social problems
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Trauma
U.S.A
Victimology
Violence
Women
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Summary:We used the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales (M. A. Straus, S. L. Hamby, D. Finkelhor, D. W. Moore, & D. Runyan, 1998) to assess retrospectively women's childhood experiences of both mother and father physical abuse and psychological aggression, and assessed mother and father alcohol problems based on criteria derived from the Family History Research Diagnostic Criteria (N. C. Andreasen, J. Endicott, R. L. Spitzer, & G. Winokur, 1977). Data were collected from 447 women (age 18 or higher) from seven domestic violence programs and five substance use disorder treatment programs in a midwestern state. Using OLS regression with backward elimination (p < .10 as criterion for removal from the equation) we found that higher levels of mother physical abuse, father psychological aggression, and presence of mother alcohol problems predicted higher scores on the Beck Anxiety Inventory and Trauma Symptom Checklist. Higher levels of mother physical abuse and father psychological aggression predicted higher scores on the Beck Depression Inventory. Implications for research and practice are discussed. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0885-7482
1573-2851
DOI:10.1007/s10896-006-9041-3